We’ve outsourced our soul.
When I call any corporate help desk, I get a person who may or may not speak intelligible english, may or may not know how to listen, always tries to cross or up-sell, even when I just need an instruction or two to accomplish my task. It’s like they’re reading from a goddamned script, getting their 12 rupees an hour. It sucketh.

Behold the campaign website for Mindy Meyer, “an Orthodox Jewish law student running against State Senator Kevin Parker on the Republican and Conservative Party lines.”
An interview with Mindy offers several money quotes, including:

“My idea is to make it very contemporary, funky, cool, not like a typical senator’s website,” Meyer said, adding, “Have you been to Kevin Parker’s website? You could fall asleep when you go to it, everything’s just red, white and blue.”

But it takes a long time into the NYT obit of Sally Ride for readers to realize that the first American woman in space was a lesbian, and, even then, you have to be alert. Maybe this could have tipped them off:

“Dr. Ride was known for guarding her privacy. She rejected most offers for product endorsements, memoirs and movies, and her reticence lasted to the end. At her request, NASA kept her illness secret. In 1983, writing in The Washington Post, Susan Okie, a journalist and longtime friend, described Dr. Ride as elusive and enigmatic, protective of her emotions. “During college and graduate school,” Dr. Okie wrote, “I had to interrogate her to find out what was happening in her personal life.” ”

They continue to take Obama out of context… but what these morons don’t realize is that this woman’s husband didn’t do it alone. He used the commons; the shared infrastructure that WE ALL BUILT. He enjoyed a stable road network. He enjoyed a stable power grid. He enjoyed freedom from invasion. He enjoyed business tax credits. He enjoyed a regulatory system that ensured he got safe food from his suppliers. He enjoyed a reliable communication infrastructure.

This isn’t to take away from individual initiative and hard work. But try to build a successful business WITHOUT all those share resources. You can’t do it alone.

If that dim-bulb’s husband had only $6 in his pocket when he started, well, he started out using borrowed money or small business loans — unless he’s going to claim a restaurant magically bloomed out of a single steak and baked potato.

Geno’s Steaks has a sign out front stating English only. Vento was a racist and so is his wife. They are South Philly thugs. Don’t patronize Geno’s. Stop at Pat’s Steaks instead. It’s right across the street near 9th and Christian in So. Philly.

If any old Think Progress regulars have some spare time, look at the threads at the Plum Line and read comments from Dave57. Is that not Backup? I confronted him on it and got no denial, no affirmation. Didn’t Backup have at least one other username for a long period?

A couple of weeks ago there was a plane that got stuck in the tarmac and couldn’t get out without a tow. I can find the picture but with the heat you can bet that some asphalt will be wilting in the heat.

That stupid SE Cupp is on that stupid show on MSNBC, equating the child molester Sandusky and the Aurora shooter. Apparently the culture around Sandusky is to blame, so that’s why the culture around the Aurora shooter isn’t to blame, or couldn’t help it, or some such shit.

In a totally unrelated story an anonymous donor (last initial “Koch”) gave a couple million to Cullen’s campaign and agreed to buy him his very own pony. No word yet on where the 35 carat ring that Ms. Cullen is wearing came from.

Well? Apparently these little girls managed the impossible and they think (were coached to say) President Obama is “rude”. Of course; they probably use municipal water for their lemonade, set up along a public sidewalk, have customers brought to their stand by public roads, receive financial support from their parents, and would receive police and fire protection if things go horribly wrong.

‘DENVER — The entertainment website TMZ is reporting that one of the theater shooting victims has hired a lawyer and plans to sue.

Torrence Brown, Jr. was not shot, but his best friend died and Brown says he is suffering from extreme trauma, according to TMZ.com.

The website said Brown’s attorney plans to target three defendants — the theater, doctors who the attorney says gave the shooting suspect several medications and the movie studio that made “The Dark Knight Rises.” ‘

Not the NRA either. Actually, if the shooter was under a psychiatrist’s care, I would love to see a class action suit against the NRA and every politician who has ever voted against laws designed to prevent psychopaths from purchasing firearms.

Jane and I will always remember Chad Everett thanks to a skit by the comedy group The Higgins Boys and Gruber. They were doing a parody of The $25,000 Pyramid. The category for the big money was “Things In The Universe.” The clue giver was trying everything, “Stars, Galaxies, Planets..” and so on, but the contestant wasn’t getting anywhere. Time ran out and “Dick Clark” came over to the two and said, as he put his fingers on his chin, “What if I said, ‘Chad Everett’?” The contestant answered, “Things in the universe?”

I agree that “overwhelming” is never a great marketing strategy, especially for personal hygene products. Determine who you want your core market to be, and devise a marketing strategy that dovetails to their emotional needs.

There are studies done frequently that identifies which smells are in vogue to attract the opposite sex. These studies are used by all the major retailers/manufacturers to produce products with the widest appeal to a vast market. But that’s not where Queen Z is at yet. But she can utilize this info to guide her in her capital needs.